{"id":33598,"date":"2013-01-07T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=33598"},"modified":"2013-01-07T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:57:42","slug":"arrow-season-1-seth-gabel-is-terrifyingly-awesome-as-count-vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/arrow-season-1-seth-gabel-is-terrifyingly-awesome-as-count-vertigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrow Season 1: Count Vertigo is “terrifyingly awesome”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Count Vertigo in the 2010 DC Showcase: Green Arrow animated short<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Definitely one of the most outlandish comic-book characters set to appear in The CW’s Arrow<\/em>\u00a0Season 1<\/a> so far, Count Vertigo is being reinvented for Fringe<\/em> star Seth Gabel<\/a> as a gangster who uses a vertigo-inducing narcotic.<\/p>\n

It might seem on the surface, that Vertigo is a pretty outlandish choice for a villain in this more grounded show, no matter how much reinvention is involved, but for co-creator and executive producer Andrew Kreisberg<\/a> there was simply no alternative as “Count Vertigo, I would say after Merlyn, is probably his most well known villain.<\/p>\n

“The comic-book version of him, the Count Werner von Vertigo… when your last name is Vertigo of course you\u2019re going to grow up to be a supervillain who uses vertigo as a weapon. That concept just doesn\u2019t exist in our world, and we\u2019ve never been shy about saying that we\u2019ve taken all of our cues from Chris Nolan\u2019s Dark Knight<\/em> trilogy<\/a>, and how he took somebody like Ra\u2019s al Ghul, played by Liam Neeson, who was immortal in the comics and presented a realistic take on how he could be immortal, by having a frontman who could be killed and allowing him to survive.<\/p>\n

“We thought of Count Vertigo sort of the same way, with Seth Gabel from Fringe<\/em><\/a> and Dirty Sexy Money<\/em> who\u2019s terrifyingly awesome in the part. First of all, how he gets the nickname \u2018the Count\u2019 is kind of fun and spooky, but also how he is able to create this vertigo effect without using certain superpowered means. And that\u2019s what\u2019s fun for us.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s some characters who for the most part have transitioned literally from the comics to the show \u2013 like Deadshot, who despite his costume is still the world\u2019s greatest assassin \u2013 and Deathstroke, and China White, but Count Vertigo is our first real, complete overhaul. We\u2019re really excited about it.”<\/p>\n

Arrow<\/em>\u00a0will return to Sky 1 in late January 2013.<\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TGrBN2VRUs0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arrow’s Andrew Kreisberg on how Seth Gabel’s Count Vertigo is inspired by Ra’s al Ghul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":33723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1718,7,3,207],"tags":[2508,103,102],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/50053L.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}